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...McCain, the biography metrics were very strong--people thought he was tough, thought he was ready to be Commander in Chief. But beyond that, voters really didn't have an image of him as this fiercely independent maverick. I don't think we thought the general election would be anything other than "change vs. more of the same...
...candidate for President has to clear a Commander in Chief threshold on whether they have the judgment and readiness to lead. But we believed from the start that the economy would trump issues. We saw continually that voters really were focused on wanting long-term solutions. Senator Obama immediately opposed the gas-tax holiday because it was exactly the type of Washington [gimmick] he was saying wouldn't solve our problems...
...learned of her death around 8 a.m. on Monday, but carried on with his campaign schedule without making it public until late in the afternoon. "He was prepared for it, and he knew. I think he was very, very gratified that he had been able to say goodbye," his chief strategist David Axelrod said, in explaining Obama's stoicism. "He feels he has a job to do here, and he's doing it. And that's what she would want...
When historians look back at the 2008 presidential landslide, they won't focus on the fact that Barack Obama - soon to be our 44th President and our first African-American Commander in Chief - ran a smart and steady campaign. They won't focus on William Ayers or Joe the Plumber or socialism or racism. They won't debate whether John McCain blew it by targeting Pennsylvania or by avoiding the press or by ignoring the Rev. Jeremiah Wright or by picking Sarah Palin as a running mate. They won't remember the robo-calls or "cling" or the Paris Hilton...
...Indeed, when he was John Paul's doctrinal chief, the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger angered many with his 1999 Vatican document Dominus Jesus, which described non-Catholics as being in a "gravely deficient" position regarding salvation...